Professor Rick Steiner on Countdown with Keith Olbermann
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Mudflats contributor Professor Rick Steiner appeared tonight on Countdown with Keith Olbermann. He starts at 4 minutes in, and discusses some of his points from the previous post here.
In addition, Rolling Stone contributing editor Tim Dickenson talk with Keith about the planned drilling project in the Arctic Ocean. Drilling this fall is scheduled. We called it the bendy straw plan.
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Whatever we do, we cannot allow BP to begin drilling in the Arctic. Write your representatives in Congress and the Senate, donate to Earthjustice http://www.earthjustice.org or the environmental organization of your choice (I give to http://www.nrdc.org, http://www.oceana.org, http://www.lcv.org, http://www.defenders.org among others), and, to quote George Jetson, “Stop this crazy thing!!”
And on the subject of bendy straws, which I understand the workings of, how about someone giving an explanation of how sections of rigid steel drilling pipe curve on demand miles under the earth. Now big pipes the size of a gun on a light cruiser are not going to bend and then continue bending like these animated examples are showing. But it works fine in cartoons.
Sometimes I feel like this whole mess is so hopeless, I’s a small relief to know that people like Rick Steiner, Jeff Corwin and Philippe Cousteau among others, have their watchful eyes on it and keeping us informed.
I’m not sure how they do the bendy-straw bit, but there are dozens/hundreds(?) of examples.